Mr. Golomstock tracks the way that the smash-it-all-up trial-and-error of late imperial Russia's avant-garde experiments that were paralleled, revealingly enough, by Italy's proto-fascist Futurists initially meshed with the ecstatic starting-from-scratch of the Bolshevik revolutionary intelligentsia.

At the other extreme, the so-called "libertarian" is a proto-fascist conservative who uses libertarian buzzwords to achieve a political agenda that would actually involve more government intrusion and not less government intrusion -- intrusion to foster business and protect wealth at the expense of the unwealthy.